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Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… the Nazi regime, Gerson-Kiwi and her family immigrated to Palestine in 1935, and settled in Jerusalem . There, she … charge of the archive which was then part of the greater Palestine Institute of Folklore and Ethnology. In 1963 she …
Jehoash Hirshberg
… of art music in he Jewish community in Ottoman and British Palestine (the Yishuv) before 1948, and the early years of …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… impacted by the diversity of the Jewish community living in Palestine, and embarked on a massive project to record their … was a comprehensive study of the Yemenite community in Palestine. Idelsohn was particularly interested in this … German, Eastern European and Hassidic Jewish communities in Palestine and throughout the Diaspora. This immense project …
Leo Levi
… changed his specialization to botany and settled in Palestine in 1936. Since the Emancipation Edict of 1848, …
Peter Emanuel Gradenwitz
… was born in in Berlin, Germany. In 1936 he immigrated to Palestine, where he founded the first publishing house. He …
Menashe Ravina
… with the Carlebach Gymnasium. Ravina immigrated to Palestine in 1924 and settled in Tel Aviv, where he became …
Solomon Rosowsky
… first Jewish Conservatory of Music. Rosowsky immigrated to Palestine in 1925 and began working as a composer of … work of the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music in Palestine. It was also during this time that Rosowsky began … cantillation. Rosowsky received a teaching position at the Palestine Conservatory of Music in Jerusalem (now the Rubin …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… European Jewish composers who settled in British Mandate Palestine/Israel and their colleagues who remained in Europe …
Amnon Shiloah
… dangerous journey of moving from Syria to Mandatory British Palestine/Eretz Israel through the Golan Heights. He joined …
Herzl Shmueli
… Herzl Shmueli was born in Istanbul and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. He studied theory and composition with …